Full-motion video

She was there in the recording booth munching her popcorn and telling us, like, do I like King Graham?

And it's just... it's really, I would love to see a FMV game like, and we're not going to, but I would just love to see an FMV game, like have like enter with the philosophy of we're going to have the actors do all the stuff that a video game adventure game avatar would do.

Because that's just, it's just so funny.

Like other, other FMV games weren't even doing that at the time.

not Yeah, I mean, it may not be like unique to Sierra's products, but you see a lot of it and phantasmagoria and Gabriel not to like, it just seems to be.

Yeah, like you said, like, yeah, we would have if this were you know a traditional 2d adventure we would be having them make these motions so of course we need to do it here in this uh in this fmv how else will you know will we tell this story visually eye lines are all over the place yeah it's uh it's a wonderful wild west of cinema

Schism, which is another kind of Myst-like game that inspired me.

Hunt Zimmer, Blade Runner, theme tunes, and even movie soundtracks, you know, like Waterworld and... and other kind of movies inspired Blade Runner to a point you know not so much the sort of high tech sort of 80s synthy kind of stuff but there was a lot of inspirations there and I think it just sort of found its own sound really I started recording the music in early 2023 just after doing most of the videos the character recordings for the game the FMV sequences so So February to March, I was recording most of my music for the game.

So it didn't take as long as the modeling or the 3D modeling.

The 3D modeling is the longest process in developing a game.

The voice acting is in English.

But when the FMV show up, they're still in Japanese.

Well, I don't have the Warrior of Light yet, so I can't comment.

So when I get him, I'll let you know.

And it's another game that came out, long time development as well.

And I will be reviewing a VR adventure game, an FMV adventure game available on VR.

Yes, VR still exists.

It mightn't be... having its greatest moment overall but there are still some interesting games and adventure games there as well so i'll be talking about that game as well and uh yeah plenty to look forward to and i hope with matt at some point to do our discussion however discussion on broken sword we forged um as well at some point so plenty to look forward to i also had an interview with james patton who made silicon dreams uh kind of a blade runner-esque uh game and uh dusk punk which was uh was similar to citizen sleeper so very good conversation uh with him on those games as well so yeah plenty to look forward to and as we said we'll be at adventure x Yes, that's what

It would

be cool to have the FMV cut scenes would be kind of cool.

With actual people.

Some developers do that with some games.

And got it home, put it in the machine, and it was fantastic.

And I say fantastic, but initially when that dodgy FMV entry intro started, I was like, oh my god, this is terrible.

awful voice acting and everything like that but then like once the game actually started proper and it was like this isometric style with the sort of pre-rendered backgrounds which was like unlike anything I'd ever played before I had very briefly seen Alone in the Dark on PC so I sort of like had seen something like that once but this was the first time I'd played anything like that and then the sort of whole thing with like the inventory management and sort of like limited ammunition didn't sink in initially so I was playing as Chris and I just kept dying like until I sort of thought, right, I need to like start from scratch here.

Went through and played as Jill and realized, you know, you've actually got to avoid some of the zombies.

imagine.

How could it? What the hell? What is happening here? Yeah, if an FMV just appeared, you're like, what? What is happening? This isn't right.

This is not right.

How? How? How could this happen? So there's a thing that I have to say about what Starfield is that I think to some extent describes how bland it is.